For those unaware, vocalist Mafalda Minnozzi is releasing her fourth jazz album for the USA market produced by New York guitarist, arranger and musical director Paul Ricci. Recorded in Rio de Janeiro, the album features her beautiful tone, gentle swing and superb facility for singing in multiple languages.

Minnozzi is a touring artist with three home bases. She performs regularly in New York City, where she can be found singing in top clubs. She returns regularly to her native Italy, where she performs in some pf the country’s leading jazz festivals.

And she is a long-time resident of Brazil, where she has a long career, recording over 20 albums and collaborating with the likes of Milton Nascimento, Joao Locke, Dave Liebman, Michael Wolff, Will Calhoun and John Patitucci.

Riofonic is Minnozzi’s homage to the music, the band, and the people of Rio for all that they have given her over the years. Her elegant vocals, heartfelt interpretations, and sophisticated interplay with the top-notch band make this brand new album one of the finest to come out of Brazil in the 21st Century.

1. Rio
2. Corcovado
3. Só Danço Samba
4. Café South American Style
5. Ea E U Brisa
6. O Barquinho
7. Telefone
8. Tu Si ’Na Cosa Grande
9. Você (You)
10. Postcard From Rio
11. The Gentle Rain
12. Garota De Ipanema
13. Se É Tarde Me Perdoa
14. Água De Beber

This sophisticated, charmingly ambient new recording opens on the sumptuously spirited Rio and the low slung beauty of Corcovado and then we get brought forth the heart-warming Só Danço Samba, some dutifully enriched rhythms within Café South American Style, and then we get the languishing Ea E U Brisa, the foot tapping hipsway of O Barquinho and the gently frenetic Telefone.

Along next is the sheer elegance of Tu Si ’Na Cosa Grande and the melodious Você (You) and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the dance floor swirls and twirls of Postcard From Rio, the yearnful The Gentle Rain, a lovingly impassioned Garota De Ipanema, the set rounding out on the robustly charming Se É Tarde Me Perdoa, closing on the bossa nova jazz standard of Jobim’s Água De Beber.

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